How it was 02/06/2001 (2001)

Video chronicle:

Americans in Moscow: a Soviet video for foreign tourists, advertising a new route.

Travel on the roads of the city.

Excursion bus "Intourist".

The host describes the events of 1959.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who arrived in the USSR on a tourist visa, stopped at the Moscow Hotel Metropol.

The American did not leave his number and soon asked for his Soviet citizenship.

Lev Setiaev, on the order of the editorial board, interviewed a young foreigner, who stated with the first phrase that he was a Marxist.

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John Kennedy with his wife Jacqueline at the airport in Dallas, Texas.

Shooting on the presidential train.

Weeping Americans.

The building of the book warehouse, from where, supposedly, three shots were fired, one of which became fatal.

The police demonstrate an automatic rifle.

Lee Harvey Oswald accompanied by police passes by the press.

Murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby.

Lev Setyaev talks about Oswald's desire to stay in the USSR, the more the young man was not interested in anything.

Later, the reporter very much regretted that he demagnetized the tape with the recording of this interview.

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Anastas Mikoyan.

Lubyanka Square.

The facade of the KGB building.

The facade of the building where the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was located.

By decision of the party, Oswald was allowed to stay on the territory of the USSR and identified Minsk as his place of residence.

Lev Setiaev, who decided to help a young foreigner who does not know the Russian language, left his address in Oswald's notebook, which he often regretted, as the US intelligence services later dubbed him KGB agent.

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Fragment of the newsreel "For the Soviet Union".

Stepan Katushenok returned to his native village in Belorussia from Argentina.

Stepan with his mother, with friends.

Streets of Minsk.

The shop of the Belarusian radio factory.

It was at the Belarusian Radio Factory that Oswald worked as a regulator.

There he met Marina Prusakova, who became his wife.

Larisa Sevastyanova talks about her communication with Oswald, shares her impressions, which the young man left.

The American explained why he came to the USSR.

An interview with Stanislav Shushkevich, who became an American first teacher.

He recalls his meeting with Oswald.

Interview with Eduard Nordman.

He says that Oswald was uninteresting to special services, but he was regarded as a man with some mental disabilities from the social norms of behavior.

Larisa Sevastyanova, who became a witness at the wedding at the newlyweds, tells about the leisure of Marina and Oswald.

Interview with Konstantin Bondarin.

He recalls how Marina and Oswald met.

Larisa Sevastyanova refutes accusations against Marina about her cooperation with the KGB special services.

Interview with Valentina Prusakova, who maintains contacts with Marina, who left the USSR.

Tells about the life of Marina and Oswald in the US, referring to their personal correspondence.

Returning to his homeland from Oswald complicated relations with the FBI.

He changed several jobs and decides to return to the USSR again.

Having submitted documents, he receives a refusal.

Alexander Feklistov talks about a thaw in the relations between the US and the USSR, which was in the mid-50's.

Interview with Oleg Nechiporenko.

The Vice-Consul recalls how Lee Harvey Oswald addressed the Mexican Embassy in Mexico with a request to issue him and his wife a visa, since, he said, he is constantly being watched by the FBI.

The American had weapons with him and was in a state of extreme nervous tension.

Lev Setiaev recalls how he heard for the first time on the radio about the murder of Kennedy and the name of the murderer.

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Anastas Mikoyan on the plane.

Publications in the Soviet press in connection with the Kennedy assassination.

Funeral farewell ceremony with the US President.

Jacqueline with the children at the tomb of Kennedy.

Anastas Mikoyan at the funeral event.

Alexander Feklisov recalls his talks with his American counterparts, who expressed confidence that Oswald was not a murderer.

A terrorist group of Texas racists was suspected.

In particular, a version of the involvement of Cuban emigrants and the participation of several killers who fired simultaneously.

Alexander Feklisov and Lev Setiaev categorically deny the involvement of the Soviet special services in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.